Dive Summary:

• Diageo Americas Supply Inc. will vacate its whiskey-aging warehouses in western Louisville, Ky., due to complaints that they allegedly cause a fungus to grow on area homes and cars.
• The company was threatened with $10,000-a-day fines related to air quality infractions from the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District last fall, and Diageo official Andrea Wilson wrote a letter this week to the regulator announcing the company's departure.
• The district began looking at the issue in the mid-2000s, and seven odor complaints and 27 complaints of a black sooty substance on area property were directed at the company between May 2011 and May 2012.

From the article:

... Called “the angel’s share,” the liquor vapors drifting from Louisville warehouses have long been romanticized by distilleries, but reviled by neighbors as a smelly, property-damaging nuisance.

The warehouse is owned by Diageo Americas Supply Inc., a subsidiary of a British company that owns the Bulleit Bourbon brand. ...